Couple Will Pay For A Baby They Will Never See - Surrogacy Issues

A British couple is very angry with the Child Support Agency and the law when they were forced to pay to a surrogate mother to raise a child they will never see.

The couple chose a single mother of two through a surrogacy website. The wife had six late stage miscarriages and were desperate to have a child. They agreed to pay the surrogate mother some 10,000 pounds but in the middle of her pregnancy she decided to keep the baby.

The judge backed her decision since she was the biological mother of the child even when she broke her promise. The couple knew the child would be emotionally distorted if she would be split into two homes so they agreed ultimately to allow the mother to keep the child and keep half of the money they had given her already for her service. However, the couple are angry that they have to pay some 600 pounds every month to raise the baby girl since the husband is the biological father anyway.

The couple are upset that though they have no right to see the child yet it is unfair to pay every month to raise this child. The baby was supposed to be the couple's yet she decided half way to keep the baby herself. They think that perhaps it is how this woman makes a living by fooling rich couples.

Well, this is quite sad for the couple. They wanted to have a baby but ended up bearing the responsibility of a child they will not even see. Unfair. Surrogacy agreements are not legally binding in British courts even with a formal contract so the risks of surrogacy can be huge in certain similar cases.

Tony Curtis: 'Marilyn Monroe miscarried my baby'

Tony Curtis, the Hollywood legend who starred in Some Like It Hot with Marilyn Monroe, had an affair with the actress which resulted in her becoming pregnant.

Curtis, now 84, claims the pair had an on-off relationship which began in 1950 and was subsequently revisited in 1958 during filming of the movie, which co-starred Jack Lemmon.

But he says Monroe suffered a miscarriage after becoming pregnant with his child.

The comments come from his new memoir, The Making of Some Like It Hot, due for publication in the US in September.

In it he writes: "When I was in bed with Marilyn I was never sure – before, during or after – where her mind was. She was an actress. She could play a part. She could give the part what she thought a man wanted. I never asked for more."

Curtis claims the affair fizzled out but they were reunited on the set of the film in 1958, despite him being married to Janet Leigh and she to playwright Arthur Miller.

He claims that the actress subsequently broke the news that she was pregnant when the pair were confessing their affair to Miller.

"I was stunned," Curtis said. "I just stood there. The room was so silent that I could hear tyres screeching on Santa Monica Boulevard."

The actor, father of Jamie Lee Curtis, says Miller claimed he had consulted Monroe's doctor who said there was no chance the baby was Curtis's.

Miller allegedly told him when asked what he should do: "Finish the film and stay out of our lives."

Curtis wrote: "I stared at him for a minute. Then I looked at her. She was crying. 'Okay,' I said. 'That I can do.' I turned and walked out. I went to my dressing room, closed the door and locked it."

The pair ended their affair when filming finished, before he later learned of her miscarriage.

Earlier this year Curtis unleashed a four letter tirade on a lunchtime BBC radio phone-in when a presenter asked the Spartacus star to talk about his infamous kiss with the actress, who died in 1962 aged 36.

Curtis had liked a steamy scene with Monroe to "kissing Hitler", a comment he has subsequently retracted.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5986060/Tony-Curtis-Marilyn-Monroe-miscarried-my-baby.html